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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...highlighted to me. Are other people and applicants still in that position? That Caranua, which I will come back to later, was to me maladministered; I use that word. Prior to that, we had the Magdalen scheme, which was maladministered. Those words were used in 2017 by the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, who called his report Opportunity Lost: An Investigation by the Ombudsman into the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ..., water and any number of other issues. This particular one upsets me on every level, personally and professionally, because the Government has utterly failed to learn. This was the chance to learn to do the scheme right. The Government messed up with Caranua, it messed up with the Magdalen redress scheme, which the High Court judge said was maladministered, and it is doing the exact...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...of family to reflect the complexity of our society. Irish society was always complex. However, we gave no recognition to that and anyone who fitted outside the norm was locked up. The phrase of Professor Smith in regard to the mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries keeps coming to mind, when he referred to the architecture of institution. That is what women mostly lived with. In...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...of the mentality behind this scheme for the former residents we are dealing with. As regards sites of conscience, there have been repeated references to this term being used in respect of the former Magdalen laundry. I understand a lot of people are unhappy about that, but the site of conscience should be this House. This is where we should be acting according to conscience.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ..., was it not time to get it right? We have had ample warnings about how to get it right. The Ombudsman pointed out to us how to get it right when he referred to the malfunctioning or maladministration of the Magdalen and Caranua schemes. I have said all of this before and I have to get my energy to say it. I am not saying it for me but for those who are coming to us. The staff in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ..., as the Government has done, between public and private records. In previous responses to me and other Deputies, the Taoiseach said that the public records in the possession of the State in various Departments will be made available in a central repository on the former site of the Magdalen laundry on Seán McDermott Street in due course. The Taoiseach might provide brief update on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...an offence to tell any of the Deputies here the amount of money the person I represented got. That was in 2003 and we were supposed to learn from that experience. Fast forward ten years to 2013 and the advent of the issues relating to the Magdalen laundries. Did we learn? Did the High Court beg us to learn and to plan out the next scheme in a fair and just way? Did we what? Here we...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...No. 2, which we lost, we were setting out important criteria that would allow the scheme to be extended. I am fundamentally against the five-year limit. Another scheme - I think it was for the Magdalen laundries - was open for longer. Precedents have been set. We could also consider leaving the scheme open-ended. No justification has been given for the five-year duration. We are now...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...I was a barrister, or my client to disclose what we got. This Dáil passed legislation criminalising the disclosure of the amount of money people got from the redress board. Fast forward to the Magdalen laundries scheme, called maladministration by the Ombudsman, and to Caranua, which I have said many times is an abuse of the Irish language. "Cara nua" means "new friend", when really...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...been quoted so often here today, you will see that we made it an offence for people to open their mouths about what they got as an award. We made criminals of them. We then moved forward to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme, the operation of which the Ombudsman described as "maladministration". We also set up Caranua and I repeat how inappropriately named it was. It was called "new...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...my sums are right. I will come back to her. Prior to that, we had many indications from many different places that something was very wrong. I come from a city of institutions, Galway city. The Magdalen laundry was within a stone's throw of my house. We had the Lenaboy industrial school for girls, and for boys we had St. Joseph's Industrial School - brothers and sisters. I am aware of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...experienced by those who are not white and who spent longer in institutions and suffered more. He is ignoring what the Ombudsman told us in 2017, namely, to learn from the debacle that was the Magdalen redress scheme. Ignoring that is an opportunity lost. Given that there will be a waiver system under this Bill, the Minister is failing to learn from the redress scheme that he...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Catherine Corless and, well before her, Mary Raftery. I also want to mention Patricia Burke Brogan, who died last week - may she rest in peace - with regard to the work she did in respect of the Magdalen laundries, in particular the play Eclipsed.I could mention many more. The groups on the ground have certainly forced us and dragged us every step of the way. I remember being at a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Magdalen Laundries (5 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when all State records on the Magdalen laundries from the McAleese archive will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22470/22]

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...back to the religious orders, which need to make contributions. There was an inability of different Governments to analyse and give figures. The original forecast for the redress scheme for those who went to industrial schools, as indicated by the Comptroller and Auditor General, was €250 million but it ended up costing €1.25 billion. I do not say this to argue that cost...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...threatened on a regular basis if you are a boy or a girl, in Lenaboy and Lower Salthill. Then, if you were really bad you were threatened with Letterfrack. If that was not enough, there was the Magdalen home in the city. We then go eastwards to Tuam, not to mention Loughrea. There is a whole debate there in relation to power. Perhaps ironic is not the word, but it is ironic that since...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...time to learn from previous schemes. In the redress institutional scheme we created an offence such that if somebody disclosed what they got, they committed a criminal offence. Then we set up the Magdalen scheme and the Ombudsman told us there was maladministration. Then we set up Caranua, which was an insult to the Irish language because we talked about a new friend when it was the old...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...in industrial and reformatory schools for boys. Girls and boys suffered emotional abuse on a great scale. In 2009, we had the Murphy report; in 2011, we had the Cloyne report; and in 2013, we had the Magdalen report of an interdepartmental committee, following by a review under Mr. Justice Quirke and the establishment of an ex gratiascheme, which was subsequently found by the Ombudsman...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: .... The Department has been on notice for a long time. The Government and the two which preceded it knew that there were issues with how we were going deal with a collection of documents for the first time. It must be borne in mind that in the context of the Magdalen laundries, we had the McAleese report, the commission of investigation and Caranua. Every report highlighted the dispersal...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...patient safety and, with relevance to this debate, "possible interference with birth and death certification" requiring further investigation. These are the briefing papers that were brought to Government in 2012 by means of Martin McAleese's report on the Magdalen laundries. That report clarified that the committee could not investigate but wanted to ensure that the matter would be...